CREWS East Africa Project Presentation Note to the Steering Committee

There is a significant leveraging potential in East Africa through on going and planned investment projects by the CREWS implementing partners. As such, the proposed CREWS project will support the design and implementation of forthcoming investments, and consists of national activities and regional coordination mechanisms to foster knowledge exchange and increase access to early warning services, including enhancing the existing marine weather information and expanding the sectoral coverage (to other sectors impacted by severe weather). Furthermore, planned investments from World Bank (WB) include, Urban resilience project in Burundi, Volcanoes Community Resilience Project in Rwanda, and the South Sudan Climate Resilient Flood Management Project.